When I was a child, my mother ordered me to eat bitter melon. She said it could clean my stomach and intestine.

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” from the Article.

In China, there are some medicine restaurants. When you feel sick, you can go to the restaurants. A doctor will diagnose (checking pulse, tongue, eyes, etc.) and order a meal for you. You can also have the recipe and cook for yourself.

This is interesting. Why couldn't nature have just made the ones that are healthier for us taste better to us? That would have made things much easier for everyone.

New motto: Bitter is better!

I've heard another interesting nutritional tidbit about our food having less nutrients and flavor over time due to farmers aiming to grow their crops larger. So those extra large tomatoes or giant strawberries would have less flavor and health benefits than their smaller versions from years ago.

I've heard another interesting nutritional tidbit about our food having less nutrients and flavor over time due to farmers aiming to grow their crops larger. So those extra large tomatoes or giant strawberries would have less flavor and health benefits than their smaller versions from years ago.

Slow down a little. We evolved to not like bitter because plant poisons tend to be bitter alkalines. Some bitters are not better.

I hate the huge, cardboard-flavored strawberries you get these days. If you've ever had a wild mountain strawberry...they're the size of your little fingertip, but wow...

They arent wild strawberries, but Oregon has some pretty nice berries in June. They are fragile and small and they cant sell them in supermarkets because they are fragile. So good - ALMOST a wild strawberry. So it floors me when berries are in season and I see people in the safeway paying more for tasteless california strawberries.

I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets

"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7